Blue & Gary Park
October 20 & 21, 2012

By Scott Howell

What a great weekend for an overnight at Blue and Gary Park!!! The weather was great. The Scouts and Leaders had a great time and lots of fun. The scouts did a great job setting up their patrol camp sites Six (6) in all and preparing their dinner and breakfast. The Leaders had a great meal Saturday evening steak, shrimp, baked potatoes w/ all the fixings, rolls baked in a dutch oven and green beans. What a meal.

Saturday evening to close our troop campfire 100 United State Flags which had been inspected and judged unserviceable were retired. These flags had reached their present state in a proper service of tribute, memory, and love. The troop had a very salmon service for these flags before destroying each flag in our campfire. The Troop would like to thank all the scouts, scout leaders and parents who took part in our flag retirement program.

Our troop is hoping to get more scouts and leaders out on overnights as this is where the scouts use their scouting skills that are taught in the scout room each Monday evening at Scout meeting. This is also where the troop can judge how our scouts and scout leaders are doing on their scouting skills as well as being able to work as a scouting family. So the troop is challegening the membership to have at least 80% of the troop membership on the next overnight.

(See more pictures from the October Blue & Gary Park Overnight in the 2012 Troop 282 Photo Collection.)